Railroad-ticket.



3 Sheets-Sheet l.

Patented Oct. 23, |900.

G. w. CRAIG. RAILROAD TICKET. (Application led Oct. 26, 1899.)

No. 660,4l7.

(No Model.)

3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

Patented ont. 23, |900.

G. w. CRAIG. RAILROAD TICKET.

(Application led Oct. 26, 1899.)

No. 660,4l7.

(No Model.)

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Patented oct. 23, |900.

G. W. CRAIG.

RAILROAD TICKET.

(Application iled Oct. 26, 1899.)

3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

(No lIlodel.)

m.. E S S F.NL W W ATTORNEYS UNITED y STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WESTON CRAIG, OF PROVO CITY, UTAH.

SI'E(l1FICATIOl-Nl forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,417, datedOctober 23., 1900. l

Application filed October 26,1899. Serial No. 734,792. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- y

Be it known that I, GEORGE WESTON CRAIG, of Provo City, in the co untyofUtah and State of Utah, have invented new and-useful Im provements inRailroad-Tickets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription. i

My invention relates to railroad-tickets, and particularly to thoseknown as coupontickets and issued for journeys extending over the linesof several companies.

. One object of my invention is to provide a ticket form which will beavailable for passage between any two of a number of stations and whichwill enable the issuing agent to make the ticket read via any one of theseveral lines which may be traveled over to reach the final destination.Thus according to my invention one form of ticket will suffice wherehitherto a very large number of forms has been required, thus eecting aconsiderable saving and affording greater convenience, since the stockof tickets may be materially reduced.

Another object of my invention is to so arrange the parts of the' ticketthat all of them may be readily punched together and that fraud will beguarded against. Y

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figures la and lb show the improved ticket open or extended, Fig. lbbeing the righthand continuation of Fig. l. Fig. 2 is a broken planshowing the ticket as it appears when folded, and Fig. 3 is a sectionalelevation on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.,

The ticket shown in the drawings is a threecoupon ticket-that is, onecoupon will be good for passage from the starting-station to a junction-point, the second coupon from this junction-point to anotherjunction-point, and the third to the final destination. The principlesof construction described hereinafter may, however, be applied to anyticket having two or more coupons or sections.

The ticket shown comprises the following parts: a general-informationsect-ion A, three passenger coupons B C D, and an agents stub E. Theticket is adapted to. be folded along the lines a o, which separate thesections from each other, and, if desired,

folding may be facilitated by scoring or perforating the ticket alongsaid 1ines.` Such means would also facilitate the successive tearing offof the ticket-sections.

The general-information section A (see Fig. lil) has a blank space fortheinsertion of any remarks or matter the company may desire to add-suchas a description of the purchaser, or his signature, or other means ofidentification. At the margin of this section appear the usualindications of the time-limit by year in space A, month in spaceA, andday in .space A3. At the bottom is an index t-o junction-points A4,having blank' spaces, as at A5, to be filled in by writing or in anyother manner by the agent. issuing the ticket. When these blanks havebeen filled, as shown, the index will designate not only the terminalstations of each coupon, but the line available for each of the coupons.Thus in the example shown the ticket is issued for passage from ProvoCity to Chicago, the first coupon entitling the holder to passage fromProvo City to Ogden via the Oregon Short Line, the second coupon readsFrom Ogden to Council Blus Via the Union Paciicf,7 and the thirdentitles the passenger to transportation on the Chicago and NorthWestern from Council Bluffs to Chicago. As all this appears on the indexA4, which remains connected with the ticket until the end of thejourney, the perpetratiou of fraud by changing the coupons ispractically made impossible.

The passenger coupons B C D and the agents stub E are practically alike,differing from each other by details in the heading in the space at thetop. Thus coupon B is Good only from junction-point via line No. 3 andto final destination, while the wordingis appropriately changed fortheother coupons and for the agents stub. Another difference between thesecoupons and the stub will be pointed out hereinafter; but I shall firstdescribe those features in which they are alike. Each of the said partshas at F a list of lines which may be available, with blank'spaces F toreceive indications in Writing or preferably by numbered punches as tothe particular lines selected by the passenger and the order in whichthey are to be used. Further, in a IOO section Cr under the headingClass are proper indicationsaud blank spacesito speciy the conditions towhich the ticket is subject; also, if desired, a blank space for thereception of a baggagepunch mark. At the bottom (or at any otherconvenient place) is a series of spaces H for the punchunarksy of theseveral conductors. The body of each of the passage-cou pons and ofthestub comprises four sections or lists, (or generically speaking, one inexcess of the number of passage-coupons the ticket contains,) of whichthe first, I, contains a list of starting-stations and firstjunction-points, preferably with one; or more blanks, so that the nameof a less-importantstation may be written in such blank space. Thesecond section I' contains a list of the Various junction-stations at.which a traveler coming from one of the starting-stations (in list I)may pass upon a connecting-line, together with further junction-pointsot' such connecting-lines. The third section I2 con tains a list of theseveral junction-stations at which a passenger, having traveled over thefirst-mentioned con meeting-line, may be transferred to anotherconnecting-line to reach his` final destination, which may be any one ofthe stations indicated in the list appearingin the section I3. Adjacentto each station-naine in -the various lists is a space, preferablynumbered, as shown, to receive a punch-mark.

While the matter contained in the spaces F G I I 12 I3 is the same foreach of the coupons B C D and for the stub E, its arrangement isdifferent in the coupon C and stub E (which are alike in thisparticular) from the coupons B and D, which again are alike except as tothe heading. Sections B and D have the arrangement of sections C andEwreversed from left to right, and vice versathat is, the centralcolumns of station-names are the same; but what is the right-hand columnin the sections B and D becomes the leftharid column in the sections Cand E, and vice versa. Similarly the spaces F G are at the left insections B and D and at the right in sections C and E. Also in sectionsB and D the numerals are at theleft of stationnames, and in sections Cand E they are at the right of such names. arrangement is to bring thosespaces of the several sections which are adapted to receivecorresponding punch-marks into exact su perposition when the ticket isfolded, as shown in Fig. 3, so that all of the four parts B, C,

D, and E may receive their corresponding claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters punch-marks J at the same time.

The improved ticket is used as follows: Let us assume the passengerdesires a ticket from Provo City to Chicago via the Oregon Short Line,(to Ogden,) the Union Pacitic, (to Council Bluiis,) and the Chicago andNorthwestern. The ticket agent punches the date at A A2 A3 in the usualmanner and inserts in the spaces A5 of the index A4 the indicationsshown in Fig. la. The agent then folds the ticket along the lines aa, asindicated in full z have to be punched only once. l of the lateralcolumns, however, is of moment for the auditors con venience, and Itherefore t consider said lateral columns not only a useful feature ofmy ticket, but necessary thereto.

The purpose of this proved ticket as shown and described, as such larrangement may be varied without departl ing from the spirit of myinvention, and I coni sider myself entitled to all such variations aslines in Fig. 3. and then punches the four sections B C D E, asindicated in Fig. :3--thatis` in the line-list Fa numerical punchmark lfor Ov. S. L, (Oregon Short Line,) the mark 2 for UIL Pac, and the mark3 for C. da N. W. In the station-list I the station Provo City ispunched. The station Ogden is punched both in the list I and in thelistl, The station-name Council Bluffs is punched in the lists I' and I2and the filial destination, Chicago, is punchedin the last listIS. Thenatureof theticket-forinstance,

l First-class, limited is also indicated by tained by the last conductorof each line, as customary.

It will be seen that the improved ticket willV avoid the necessity for amultiplicity of forms and will enable any agent to issue tickets goodover a large variety of routes, while the ma# nipulations in punchingthe ticket are so obvious that mistakes on the part of the issuing agentare not likely to occur. As each of the sections by its punch-marks, oras for the section A by the index A, gives full de-Y tails as to thestations between which the ticket is good and what lines should betraveled over, the use of the ticket upon other `lines connecting thesame stations is made impossible, and fraudulent alterations of the 1ticket are eifectively prevented.

'It will be obvious that the ticket might be l somewhat simplified bythe omission of the lateral columns in the lists I and I', in which casethe name of each junction-point would The addition It is to beunderstood thatI do not limit myself to the exact arrangement of myimcome within the scope of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, I

Patentl. A coupon-ticket, comprising a plurality of sections havingmarks indicating the order in which said sections are to be used, eachsection also having a list of starting-points,

a list of destination-points, a list of intermediate or junction points,and a separate list of the lines available for travel between suchstarting, junction and destination points, so that, by appropriatelypunching stations in IIO , the startingpoint,a list ofdestination-points,

a list of intermediate or junction points, and a separate list of thelines available for travel between the starting, junction, anddestination points. t v

3. yA coupon-ticket, comprisinga pluralityof sections having marksindicating the order in which said sections are to be used, each sectionhaving a space for the indication of the starting-point, another spacefor the indication of the destination-point, a list of intermediate orjunction points', and a Separate list of the lines available for travelbetween the starting, junction, and destination points.

4. A coupon-ticket, comprising a plurality of sections having marksindicating the order in which said sections are to be used, each sectionhaving a space for the indication of the starting-point, vanother spacefor the indication of the destination-point, a list of intermediate orjunction points, a separate list of the lines available for travelbetween the starting,'junction and destination points, and anothersection provided with an index having blank spaces for the insertionofthe names ot' the terminal stations of each coupon and ot' the linesfor which the ticket is issued.

5. A couponticket, comprising a plurality of adjacent sections adaptedto be folded one over the other, each section having spaces for theindication of the'starting-pointand des,- tination-point respectively, alist of interme diate or junction points, and a 'separate list of thelines available for travel between such starting', junction, anddestination points, the

relative arrangement of such spaces and lists being reversed, as regardsright and left, in

adjacent sections so that correspondingl spaces of the sections will bein vregistry or Witnesses i' F. H. PLAISTED, JAMES A TWETRES.

